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The cure for mixed metaphors, I have always found, is for the patient to be obliged to draw a picture of the result.

Bernard Levin

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Bernard Levin
Age: 75 †
Born: 1928
Born: August 19
Died: 2004
Died: August 7
Journalist
Television Presenter
London
England
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Obliged
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Metaphor
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